Jaber Khalid al-Shantaf

Jaber Khalid al-Shantaf (25 December 1981-8 July 2006) was a Hamas leader.

Biography
Jaber Khalid al-Shantaf was born on 25 December 1981 in Sheikh Radwan, Gaza Strip to a family of Sunni Muslim Palestinians originally from Jaffa in Israel. During the Second Intifada in 2001, he joined the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas and tried to defend Beit Lahiya from Israel Defense Forces troops. On 8 July 2006 he died three days after being mortally wounded in an Israeli Air Force airstrike.